This morning we climbed up Rueval on Benbecula, in the steps of Bonnie Prince Charlie, who spent several nights bivvying on its summit in 1745.

Its height is a very modest 300ft, but the view from here is superb and I have captured only half of it on this panoramic shot. Ellie was especially entranced and sat looking over to the hills of Skye and Rum for a long, long time. None of us wanted to descend down to the everyday. We didn't see any of the hen harriers which apparently favour Rueval’s slopes, but we did see and hear many handsome stonechats trilling from the tops of the bushes next to the path.

In the afternoon we walked along the beach at Baleshare (second extra), where we came across the rotting pile of  the remains of an orca which was stranded here in 2014.


Returning to the Stone House, Sarah and I left Ellie and D to make the dinner and drove to  the church at Daliburgh for the Easter Day service. We swelled the congregation by 10% and the volume of the singing by considerably more :-)